Sacred Passage: End of Life Doula Certificate* offers 62 CEUs and is offered in Boulder, CO USA on the following dates.

Sacred Passage: End of Life Doula: Phase 1 - a 3 Day Workshop – Jan 27-29

Sacred Passage: End of Life Doula: Phase 2 - a 5Day Workshop – Mar 29-Apr 2* This is a two-part program, so registration for Phases I and II is required. The Jan/March Certificate Program includes at no additional cost:

"Best Three Months: End of Life Coaching and Care Planning" (B3M) Peer Practicum between phase 1 and phase 2. "Best Three Months" is a family, patient, caregiver, community engagement and life fulfillment course. Students learn to identify priorities in 5 domains of life and create care plans guided by the end of life wishes and choices of patients and families facing critical illness and death.

TheSacred Passage Doula Certificate Programbenefits all those involved in the care of life, love, family, and healing. From healthcare professionals to concerned family members to end-of-life experts, this provides the preparation needed to befriend death, surrender and trust deeply in each moment, become part of the next great evolution in healthcare, and become a supportive and effective end-of-life companion.

What is a Sacred Passage Doula?End of Life Doulas are frontline caregivers who offer healing care to families and patients during critical illness and the dying process. They work individually or in teams, being available around the clock, filling the care-gaps before, nearing and during death. Their compassionate presence increases quality life-moments of the families and patients they serve. The presence of an end of life Doula at bedside assures that families and loved ones can focus on what is most important throughout the dying time.

Who Is It For? Frontline staff, nurses, clinicians, healing arts professionals, home and family caregivers, or anyone wishing to serve at the end of life, including those interested in exploring their own mortality and desiring to deepen their present moment awareness and full experience of life.

Unique Benefits and Outcomes of the Sacred Passage: End of Life Doula Certificate

5 domains of life healing modality education and care including expert presenters in: Spiritual, Emotional, Physical, Life Purpose & Review , and After Death Rituals and Care

Support and Development of End of Life Doula Practice Including:

Best Three Months: End Of Life Coaching and Care Planning Faculty Mentored Practicum

Doula Practice Business Development

Strategic Visioning

Peer Mentoring and Coaching

Access to Conscious Dying Institute Branding and Marketing materials

Listing on End of Life Doula Directory

Sacred Passage Doula, Phase 1 & 2

This is a 2-phase program leading to the Conscious Dying Institute's Sacred Passage Doula Certificate. It offers 62 Continuing Education Credits (CEU's) and is not offered separately from the full Certificate program. Phase I is Friday, Sept 16 - Sunday, Sept. 18 and Phase II Wednesday, Nov 30 - Sunday, Dec 4 in Boulder, CO. Both retreats are residential, which means they do not include housing.

How Does It Work? The Sacred Passage Doula Certificate Program changes end of life care by transforming caregivers who return the emotional, spiritual, physical, practical care and loving experience they receive to the patients and families they serve. It prepares caregivers to be authentically present, communicate with vulnerability, honesty, and compassion and administer palliative-based comfort care healing modalities to anyone, in any setting, regardless of health status.

The program is designed to bring the caregiver into a deeper understanding of, and peace with, his or her own mortality. After all, it is hard to comfort the dying if the comforter is feeling fear. Through live music, restorative and releasing “practices for death”, vision mapping for end-of-life, grief and forgiveness activities, and other clinically-tested tools, participants heal their own sense of separation an isolation from life, and death.

From this place of greater self-understanding, there is a far greater capacity for holding one another, listening attentively, being open and honest, and offering forgiveness and love. In this setting, transformational, evidence-based, caring and healing practices are taught through the Caring Science Theory of Dr. Jean Watson and Conscious Dying Principles and Practices of Tarron Estes.

Program Results:

Moving from curative care to healing care

Creating vitality instead of physicalexhaustion

Offering supported conversations instead of challengingtopics

Making space for beauty-filled visions and Best Life Care plans instead of unexpressed wishes

Transmuting unexpressed feelings into life satisfaction and completion